Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze countered Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's comments about him and satellite camps Wednesday morning.
Freeze was on ESPN's Mike and Mike a day after Harbaugh's remarks were published. Freeze had said he was selfish with his time when it came to his family and while he was willing to go to a satellite camp, was glad that he could sleep at home.
In a Sports Illustrated article Tuesday, Harbaugh had this to say about Freeze:
"You've got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time,” Harbaugh said. “That is not a kindred spirit to me. What most of these coaches are saying is they don't want to work harder."
Freeze backed up his sentiments on Wednesday. Via Coaching Search:
“I will never apologize for wanting to be a father and a husband. I miss enough volleyball games. That is a priority for me,” he said Wednesday. “But in all reality, schools that are coming down to do camps way outside of their region, they’re really coming for one or two kids. That’s the truth.
“A better setup is for us to continue to run our camps and allow every school in a non-Power 5 (conference) to come attend your camp and see these 500 kids. When I address those camps, I stand up and say, ‘Here are all these coaches. Very few of you will play at Ole Miss. But you want an opportunity, and here they are.’ I understand the other side of it, but I don’t think people have an understanding of how the recruiting calendar is set up right now.”
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Perhaps its possible to see each point Harbaugh and Freeze are making. While you can argue that coaches aren't held to the same work-life balance standards as others because of their exorbitant salaries and influential status, you can also see where Freeze is coming from when it comes to spending time with family.
The back-and-forth is, of course, because of the NCAA's ban on satellite camps. The NCAA Division I council quashed satellite camps last week after the issue was raised initially by the SEC and ACC because many of the camps were being held in the conferences' geographic areas.
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